Why is it so hard to return to the moon?

If we went to the Moon already, why can’t we go back so easily? What technology have we lost? What are we trying to do differently? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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[J.C.Ky.ridgerunner]

you can't return to a place you've never been

[coisasnatv]

Forgot to mention NASA also "lost" about *14.000* tapes with telemetry data from the Apollo project, vanish, gone.

[cleavernamehere]

The explanations set forth in this video only made me doubt it happened even more

[grupoelcomienzo]

It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.

[jimchirdon]

With modern technology it should be easier not harder

[maxpayne]

When you bought a car in the 60's. Your owner manual gave instructions on how to adjust your valve lash. Today, your manual warns against drinking the antifreeze. Society has become "stupidy".

[Shamsher]

It's harder to fake it again now that other countries can watch

[M.R.Baloch]

If the mission was that expensive, then why they didn't quit after first successful mission or 2nd mission?

[phillipdyson]

Stanley Kubrick died is the real reason.

[vettman]

Thank you for not using AI generated narration like so many channels have defaulted to.

[SmokeySkies]

if you can't make it, you fake it.

[sirtonymayo]

It's because it was never possible and never happened

[felixthefearless]

Interesting that it could be done in the 1960’s with one launch, but now we need 20… very interesting. Anyone believe this?

[brettrun]

Pretty impressive that you can take less than five minutes worth of talking points and stretch it out for over 30 minutes.

[RandomJ]

2024: "There is more computing power in your handheld device than the entire computing power of the 1960. "
1969:

[Brand-jujm]

It is hard to do again something that was never done originally

[austinlumpkins]

That’s ludicrous that we couldn’t rebuild a Saturn V rocket today, I do not believe that for a second. The other idea that we lost some of the technology we used is also preposterous.

[TopKreload]

Thats when Holywood was born, the best film ever

[terrillfloyd]

Now Boeing can't even put a simple capsule up at the iss

[timelapsetv]

No one went to the moon in the 60s its common sense!